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Table Of Contents
3.1.5 Navigation in Tables Using the Keyboard
3.2.1 Opening Links in a New Window
3.3.2 View the Events Reported From the Network Element
Using Cisco Edge Craft
This chapter contains information about how to use the Cisco Edge Craft software. You will learn how to navigate on the Desktop and use the Management Tree, Attributes view and the Alarm view.
3.1 Cisco Edge Craft Desktop
The graphical user interface of Cisco Edge Craft is built on the Cisco GUI framework and is delivered pre-customized to show a network element Management Tree, attributes, and an alarm list. The alarm list displays all alarms, events and notifications that occur while Cisco Edge Craft is connected to the network element. Figure 3-1 gives an overview of the Cisco Edge Craft desktop with explanation of the functionality. The status bar will display a description of selected toolbar button or menu item.
Figure 3-1 Cisco Edge Craft Desktop Overview
3.1.1 Toolbar Buttons
The table below shows the functionality of the icons which are used in the Cisco Edge Craft.
Table 3-1
Toolbar buttons
Figure 3-2 and Figure 3-3 show the functionality how to Move and Lock toolbars.
Figure 3-2 Move Toolbars
Figure 3-3 Lock Toolbars
3.1.2 Menu Items
This section gives an overview and explains the different menu items.
3.1.2.1 File
Figure 3-4 and Table 3-2 show and explain the functionality of the menu File.
Figure 3-4 Pull Down Menu File
Table 3-2 Menu File
Save
Save contents.
Reconnect
Reconnect to equipment.
Exit
Exit Cisco Edge Craft.
3.1.2.2 Edit
Figure 3-5 and Table 3-3 show and explain the functionality of the menu edit.
Figure 3-5 Pull Down Menu Edit
Table 3-3 Menu Edit
Copy
Copy selected items to system clipboard.
Paste
Paste copied content
Add
Add row.
Delete
Delete selected item(s).
Select all
Select all items in active the active view.
Invert selection
Invert current selection in the active view.
Clear selection
Clear current selection.
3.1.2.3 View
Figure 3-6 and Table 3-4 show and explain the functionality of the Menu View.
Figure 3-6 Pull Down Menu View
Table 3-4 Menu View
Toolbars
Standard: Check to make standard toolbar active.
Attributes: Check to make attributes toolbar active.
Labels: Check to make labels visible on tool buttons.
Status bar
Check to make status bar visible in the bottom of Cisco Edge Craft desktop.
Alarm Display
Check to make alarm display an active application on the desktop.
Management Tree
Check to make Management Tree an active application on the desktop.
Attributes
Check to make attributes viewer an active application on the desktop.
Columns
Toggle visible columns in alarm display. Please see the "Visible Columns" section for details.
Last Alarm
Check to view last alarm in separate window in the alarm display.
Back
Move back.
Forward
Move forward.
Up
Move up one level.
Stop
Stop current operation.
Refresh
Refresh the active view.
Error Log
Open error log.
The log is also available from the status bar.
These symbols indicates severity in the status bar. Double-click current symbol to view log.
3.1.2.4 Equipment
Figure 3-7 and Table 3-5 show and explain the functionality of the menu Equipment.
Figure 3-7 Pull Down Menu Equipment
Table 3-5 Menu Equipment
VLAN Settings
Open VLAN Settings GUI.
Please see the "7.4 VLAN Provisioning" section on page 7-12 for details on VLAN Settings.
Cross Connect
Open Cross connect GUI.
Please see the "5.6 ONS 15305 SDH Cross-Connection Management" section on page 5-16 for details on Cross Connects
WAN to SDH mapping
Open WAN to SDH mapping GUI.
Please see the "5.15.3 Add Initial WAN Port Capacity" section on page 5-57 for details.
Notification History
Open Notification History GUI.
Please see the "History" section.
3.1.2.5 Tools
Figure 3-8 and Table 3-6 show and explain the functionality of the menu Tools.
Figure 3-8 Pull Down Menu Tools
Table 3-6 Menu Tools
VT 100 Terminal
If configured, the VT100 terminal launches.
Please see the "1.1.6 Configuration of VT100 Terminal" section on page 1-16 for details.Text Editor
Open Text Editor.
3.1.2.6 Help
Figure 3-9 and Table 3-7 show and explain the functionality of the menu Help.
Figure 3-9 Pull Down Menu Help
Table 3-7 Menu Help
Online Help
Launches Cisco Edge Craft User Guide online.
About
Launches information of installed Cisco Edge Craft software, Figure 3-10.
Figure 3-10 The About box - Example
3.1.2.7 Log Viewer
Table 3-8 shows and explains the functionality of the log viewer icons.
These symbols indicate severity in the status bar, if the log contains messages:
Table 3-8 Log Viewer Icons
An error messages occurs.
A warning message occurs.
Information is available.
Unmapped severity information is available.
If this icon occurs additional information is available.
Step 1
Double-click current symbol to view log.
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Step 3
Figure 3-11 and Figure 3-12 show details of the lock viewer function.
Figure 3-11 Log Viewer
Tool tip shows entire value if it does not fit inside the cell.
Figure 3-12 Log Viewer - Tool tip
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3.1.3 Copy and Paste
All Cisco Edge Craft applications supporting table entry editing have a copy and paste feature. When pasting, Cisco Edge Craft will verify that selected columns have the same data type as the cells copied from. If not, you are asked if you would like to copy the data based on the column names. Only editable columns with the same name and data type will be then be pasted. This enables copying and pasting between tables with the same data but with different column order, Figure 3-13.
Figure 3-13 Example Copy and Paste
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3.1.4 Cell Selection Mode
By default, entire rows are selected in table, but single cells can easily be selected using the cell-mode toggle button.
The feature enables copying one table cell, selecting the entire column, press Paste and copying the value into all selected cells. Copy and paste of ranges are also supported. Thus you can copy values A and B and paste them into a large range in order to get the A and B values repeated throughout the range.
Copy and paste to an external applications such as Microsoft Excel.
3.1.5 Navigation in Tables Using the Keyboard
Cell in focus is easily spotted and the arrow-keys can be used to move the cursor (applies for editable tables only). Editing of selected cell is easily available via Enter or F2. The Tab-key can be used for moving to the next editable cell (from left to right and top to bottom). The selection is circular, meaning when last editable cell on the last row is reached, the first editable cell in the first row will be activated.
In order to move to first editable cell in a table, activate the window and press the Tab-key twice.
3.1.6 Auto Fit Column Width
Double-clicking on the resize-area in the column header will resize the column so that it is wide enough to show all values in the column. By default, the column name is not taken into consideration, but this can be achieved by holding down the Shift key while double-clicking.
3.2 Management Tree
The Management Tree shows the hierarchy of managed entities, for example, LAN ports, VLANs, bridge, etc. on the current network element. The operator can view the entire hierarchy, or use any of the pre-defined views to only view managed entities of a certain type, for example only view the LAN ports. Whenever an item in the Management Tree is selected, the attributes view will list the child objects under it.
Clicking on the device folder in the Management Tree shown in Figure 3-1, will display all alarm-, aux- and management port(s). Clicking on alarmport:1 will show that specific port's attributes. Attributes that are editable (shown as bold), can be edited directly in the table, or through custom user interfaces.
The different configuration tasks using the Management Tree are thoroughly shown in the following chapters.
The combination of the Management Tree and attribute panes will work similar to Windows Explorer, only that it shows the contents of a network element instead of files in the file system.
Figure 3-14 Editable Types and Tables - Hyperlinks
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All links to editable complex types and tables are visualized as hyperlinks, Figure 3-14.
Although changing attribute values can carry all necessary configurations, more complex configuration is handled using wizards or custom user interfaces.
3.2.1 Opening Links in a New Window
By selecting a managed object instance and right clicking you can select Open in new window. A new AttributesViewer displaying selected managed object is opened. This enables you to easily compare values on different managed objects.
3.3 Alarm Display
The purpose of the alarm display is to present the current alarm and event notifications.
In addition the history of all alarms are presented. The history list in the network element can be cleared. Alarms report failures in the network element. They can be clearable or not clearable. Clearable alarms have duration. Events report other situations in the network element that are not failures. An event has a status, Figure 3-1.
3.3.1 View Current Alarms
To view the current alarms, follow the steps described below.
3.3.1.1 Subscription of Alarms
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Step 2
Figure 3-15 Setting the TrapsEnable Attribute
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Step 4
The SNMP traps are mapped to Notifications in Cisco Edge Craft. The mapping philosophy is described in the "Notification" section.
You can view the list of current alarm notifications by selecting current alarm in the notification list.
3.3.1.1.1 View Alarms
Click on the Current tab to view current alarms, Figure 3-16.
Figure 3-16 Current Tab - Alarm List
The latest alarm is visible in lower part of the Alarm List, Figure 3-17.
Figure 3-17 Latest Alarm
Refresh
Click Refresh in the tool bar to update the Alarm List.
History
To get a list of all alarm notifications reported on the network element since the last restart of the network element or the last clearing of the history list in the network element
Select History in the notification list to get a list of all alarm notifications reported on the network element since the last restart of the network element or the last clearing of the history list in the network element.
You must explicitly do a refresh for Cisco Edge Craft to collect the alarm history from the network element. Before the refresh is selected the notification list might be empty because a load has not been performed yet.
The history log on the network element can be cleared through an action on the log administration attribute of the device. See the "4.5 Manage Common Parameters" section on page 4-25.
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Step 2
Figure 3-18 Notification History
3.3.1.2 Select Alarm
Single Selection
Click on desired single alarm, Figure 3-19.
Figure 3-19 Select Single Alarm
Multiple Selections
Step 1
Figure 3-20 Select All Alarms
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Step 2
Figure 3-21 Select Alarms - Continuous Range
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Step 3
Figure 3-22 Select Alarms - None Continuous Range
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You can also choose Invert selection or Clear selection.
Copy alarm(s)
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Step 2
Step 3
3.3.1.3 Alarm Lifestyle
Figure 3-23 Lifecycle Instance of Alarm Point
The notification list presents one row for each alarm point, that means, an alarm source and an alarm identification combination. When a new alarm notification for the same alarm point is being presented, the row is possibly updated with the severity of the new alarm and new timestamp(s) unless the alarm has been cleared. A new row is created if the alarm point starts a new lifecycle instance, Figure 3-23. Each new alarm notification might cause a transition from one severity to another or to the cleared severity, which ends the lifecycle.
No traps are sent to Cisco Edge Craft IP address if you have de-registered as trap receiver.
3.3.2 View the Events Reported From the Network Element
Current Events
To view current events reported from the network element, you select Event Trace in the notification list, Figure 3-24 and Figure 3-25.
Figure 3-24 Select Events
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Figure 3-25 Current Events
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Event History
Select Notification History from the Equipment Menu and click Event tab to view event history, Figure 3-26.
Figure 3-26 Event History
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Details about the attributes of the event notifications are found in Table 3-9.
Visible Columns
You can decide which columns you want to be visible in the alarm display.
Step 1
Step 2
Current alarms and history of alarms is available in Figure 3-27.
Events and events history is displayed in Figure 3-28.
Figure 3-27 Visible Columns 1
Figure 3-28 Visible Columns 2
Change Column Order
The order of selected columns can be can easily be changed, Figure 3-29.
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Step 2
Figure 3-29 Column Order
Column Resize
Step 1
Step 2
Figure 3-30 Column Resize
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Sort Columns
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Step 2
Figure 3-31 Column Sorting
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3.3.3 Notification
The notification types with attributes supported by Cisco Edge Craft are:
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Notification Types
Table 3-9 Notification Types
AckSign
Acknowledge signature
Userid (automatic)
AckTime
Acknowledge time
yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss (server time)
Acked
A check when alarm is acknowledged
Checked/ Unchecked
AddTxt
Additional text (free form text description)
AlarmId
Unique identification of alarm
AlarmType
Alarm grouped into categories
Equip(-ment), env(-ironment), comm(-unication), process
Clearable
Boolean value to indicate if the alarm can be cleared or not. Some alarms does not have duration and therefore no Cleared severity
Checked/ Unchecked
Comment
Manual added text as comment to alarm
Text (latest only) (appear in history log)
DefAggr
N/A
Duration
Time interval: From alarm was received to cleared alarm
hh:mm:ss
Ems Time
Timestamp set by Cisco EdgeCraft when the alarm was received
yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss (server time)
Id
Unique sequence number to identify the alarm
Layer rate
The layer rate in which the managed object belongs if applicable.
Not Applicable (any other layer rate supported by the network element) See Map viewer and Map Designer
Location
NE
Identification of the network element
NativeValues
Unmapped trap data
(legal values depends on the network element)
NeTime
Timestamp from network element (if available)
yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss
NumUpdated
How many times the alarm has been updated from a given Alarm Point (defined by Source and Alarm Identifier)
Numbers (1- n)
ProbCause
The probable cause of the alarm
(legal values depends on the network element)
ProbCauseQ
A probable cause qualifier if the probable cause itself is not sufficient to determine the exact error and source
(legal values depends on the network element)
PrvId
Previous Identification of notification
Sequence number
Severity
Severity of alarm
Critical, Major, Minor, Warning, Cleared, Indeterminate
Source
Identification of the network element that contains the source of the alarm.
Every managed objects available in Management Tree
Trend
Indication to report trends on severity change.
No Change, Less Severe, More Severe
Events Notifications
Table 3-10 Events Notifications
AddTxt
Additional text to explain the event
Description
Additional text
Ems Time
Timestamp set by CiscoEdgeCraft when the alarm was received
yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss (server time)
EventId
Unique identification of event
EventType
Event grouped into categories
Equip(-ment), env(-ironment), comm(-unication), process
Id
Unique sequence number to identify the event
Moid
Identification of the network element that contains the source of the event.
A M.O in the Information Model for the equipment
Native Values
Unmapped trap data
(legal values depends on network element)
NE
Identification of the network element
NeTime
Timestamp from network element (if available)
yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss
Alarm Notification Severity
The severity of an alarm notification can either be reported from the network element or must be defined in the notification mapping.
Trap to Notification Mapping
The interpretation of alarm and event is slightly different in the network element and Cisco Edge Craft. The mapping rules applied to the SNMP traps are illustrated in Figure 3-32.
Figure 3-32 Trap to Notification Mapping
The TrapAlarmRaised and TrapAlarmCleared traps are mapped to alarm notification. The timestamp in the trap will be used together with the severity. ONS 15305 and ONS 15302 have severity in the trap. This severity is used in notification.
One attribute in an alarm notification is called clearable. If set to true, this attribute indicates that the management system should expect a TrapAlarmCleared for this alarm.
Those TrapAlarmEvent traps that indicate an error failure in the network element will be mapped to an alarm notification with the attribute clearable set to false. The severity and timestamp from the trap are used in the alarm notification.
Other TrapAlarmEvents will be mapped to event notifications. These have no severity, but a status defining the type of event, for example info, confirm etc. The severity in the trap might be used as the status in the event notification.
Unknown Traps
If Cisco Edge Craft receives a trap and there exists no mapping to any type of notification, a notification is generated. The notification contains all the information as it was received in the trap.
Posted: Fri Sep 14 12:21:25 PDT 2007
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